How much can the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline pump per year? theory and reality.
The Iran-Armenia gas pipeline is often called an alternative to Russian gas (the annual supply is almost 2.5 billion cubic meters), but in practice its potential is limited not only by political factors, but also by purely technical factors. Officially, its capacity can reach 2.3 billion cubic meters per year, but in fact today it is about half due to the lack of a compressor station on the territory of Armenia.
To increase supply volumes, it will be necessary not only to build such a station, which will take 2-3 years, but also to complete the 400 kW Armenia-Iran power transmission line project.
Even in an optimistic scenario, Armenia will only be able to keep about 700-750 million cubic meters of Iranian gas per year for domestic consumption.
Duty Officer for Transcaucasia.